In Focus

It’s Quite a Stretch

The lush green lawn next to the Miller Research Building in East Baltimore served as a welcoming locale for a summer series of free yoga classes through September. The weekly classes—which were popular with students, faculty members and staff members from the school of medicine—were also held in Eager Park at Wolfe and Ashland streets.

Horizons

The Eyes Have It

The zebrafish’s natural ability to regenerate the retinal tissue in its eye can by accelerated by controlling the fish’s immune system, according to new Johns Hopkins research led by Jeff Mumm, associate professor of ophthalmology.

The researchers hope that by harnessing the ability to improve regeneration in zebrafish, they can better understand how to induce regeneration in human eyes, which share many of the same mechanisms for controlling regenerative potential. “Humans have an evolutionary block on our ability to regenerate certain tissues,” says Mumm. “But humans still have the genetic machinery needed to regenerate retinal tissue, if we can activate and control it.” His team’s study appeared in April in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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